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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I create groups?</h1></div>
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    <p>You may create groups in your site in several different ways:</p>
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<li>Manually create and assign users to a group.</li>
<li>Create joinable groups that site participants can elect to join.</li>
<li>Automatically generate groups by user role, number of groups per site, or number of users per group.</li>
<li>Import group information from a file.</li>
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<p>Once groups are created, group aware tools such as Assignments, Email, Resources, or Tests &amp; Quizzes have options for restricting access by group. </p>
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    <p>Select the <strong>Site Info</strong> tool in the Tool Menu of your site.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click on Manage Groups.</h2>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Manually create a group.</h2>
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    <p>Select <strong>Create New Group</strong>.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enter group information.</h3>
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<li>Enter a <strong>Group Title</strong> for the group.</li>
<li>Enter a <strong>Description</strong> of the group. (Optional)</li>
<li>Check the box for <strong>Allow members to see the other members of this group</strong> if you want students to be able to see the names of their group members.</li>
<li>You may use the <strong>Filter by group</strong> drop-down menu to filter the site member list by another group or section. For example, if you have two sections combined into one site, and you want to set up groups of students within sections, you could filter the view by section to make assigning students easier. <em>(Note: You must have existing groups/sections for them to show up in this list.)</em>
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<li>If you would like this group to be part of a <strong>Joinable Set</strong>, select the set from the drop-down menu.<em> (Note: You must have existing joinable groups for them to show up in this list.)</em>
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<li>In the <strong>Membership</strong> section, click on a user or users' names to select participants from the <strong>Site Member List</strong>. Then select on the right arrow button <strong>&gt;</strong> to move the selected participant(s) over to the <strong>Group Member List</strong> area. </li>
<li>Once you have selected all of the desired group members, click on the <strong>Add</strong> button to create the group.</li>
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    <p>Tip: You may select more than one name at a time in the participant list by using <strong>SHIFT+Click</strong> to select a range of consecutive names, or <strong>CTRL+Click</strong> to select more than one non-consecutive name.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Create a joinable group.</h2>
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    <p>Select <strong>Create New Joinable Set</strong>.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Specify the joinable set details.</h3>
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<li>You will need to enter a <strong>Set name</strong> for the set of groups. Each group will begin with the same name and end with a unique number. </li>
<li>Indicate the <strong>Number of groups.</strong>
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<li>Enter the <strong>Max members per groups</strong>. </li>
<li>Click <strong>Add Set</strong> to create the joinable set.</li>
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<p>Optionally, you may also select any of the following options:</p>
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<li><strong>Allow users to see group membership before joining</strong></li>
<li><strong>Allow members to see the other members of these groups after joining</strong></li>
<li><strong>Allow members to unjoin (leave) groups in this set after joining</strong></li>
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<p><em>Note: Students will need access to Site Info to see and join any joinable sets of groups. </em></p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Automatically generate groups.</h2>
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    <p>Select <strong>Auto Groups</strong>.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Step 1: Select Role(s)</h3>
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    <p>Select one or more roles from which you would like to create groups, and then click the <strong>Continue </strong>button.</p>
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    <p><em>Tip: Click the <strong>Role</strong> checkbox to select all roles at once; click the checkbox again to de-select. </em></p>
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    <p>Choose the sections to be included in your groups. If your site has no sections, then all site participants will be included. </p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Step 3: Define Group Structure</h3>
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    <p>First, you need to select if you want your groups to be created across roles and/or sections, or within roles and/or sections. </p>
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<li>Select <strong>Create groups containing a random mixture of users with the selected role(s) and/or selected section(s)/roster(s)</strong> to create groups randomly from all of the selected roles and sections.</li>
<li>Or, select <strong>Create groups containing the members from the selected role(s) and/or selected section(s)/roster(s) </strong>to create groups that are restricted within roles or sections. For example, if you have students in multiple sections, it will only place students in groups with other students enrolled in the same sections.<br><br>Once you have made your selection for the composition of the group, you need to choose how you want to break up the site participants.<br> </li>
<li>Select the <strong>Split by number of groups needed </strong>radio button to indicate the total number of groups you want. <ul>
<li>Enter a <strong>Group Title</strong>. This title will serve as the basis for all of the group names. Unique numbers will be appended to the title.</li>
<li>Enter the number of groups desired.</li>
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<li>Or, select the <strong>Split by number of users needed per group</strong> to divide up the participants by a given number of group members.<ul>
<li>Enter a <strong>Group Title</strong>. This title will serve as the basis for all of the group names. Unique numbers will be appended to the title.</li>
<li>Enter the number of participants per group desired.</li>
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<li>Click the <strong>Continue</strong> button to proceed.</li>
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    <p>Preview your groups to make sure they look correct. If everything looks good, click <strong>Create</strong> to create your groups. (If you need to make a change, click <strong>Back</strong> to return to an earlier step in the process.)</p>
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    <p>Select <strong>Bulk Creation</strong>.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Provide group information.</h3>
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    <p>There are two methods to create or update multiple groups at once:</p>
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<li>Type or paste the group information into the text box provided. </li>
<li>Click the <strong>Choose File</strong> button to browse for and select your import file.  <ul>
<li>Your import file should be in comma-separated (CSV) format with two columns of data. The first column should contain the group title, and the second column should contain the username of the site participant. Do not include a column header row and do not include spaces.</li>
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<li>Select <strong>Continue</strong> to proceed with group creation.</li>
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